A Hard Day's Night / A Hard Day's Night (US) + 7 Bonus Tracks [Import, Original recording reissued, Extra tracks]

The Beatles | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Format: Import, Original recording reissued, Extra tracks
• Label: CD Maximum
• ASIN: B000K6XJ5W
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #242,992 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The way to go..., January 8, 2008

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Bob "plaidman308" (Hingham, MA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Hard Day's Night / A Hard Day's Night (US) + 7 Bonus Tracks (Audio CD)

If you are looking at this copy of AHDN, you may be wondering, as I was, weather or not these discs are the best investment. Despite the handful of disparaging comments about these Russian releases, I found them to be superb, Both in packaging and sound quality. Ignore anyone who tells you these are bootlegs. In order to improve the post-communist Russian economy, certain copyright laws were "overlooked" in order for these discs to be officially sold. Never intended for sale outside the Russian market, these compilations of the Beatles USA and UK releases fortunately found their way into the global market. Well, enough backstory, how do they sound? Crisp. Clean. Terrific. Both the UK and US albums appear to be mono mixes, and of course the US album is unavailable anywhere else on CD. The US release includes great film instrumentals previously unavailable, and the bonus tracks include a rollicking version of 'leave my kitten alone' and a Christmas song! But are they really worth 40+ dollars? I, personally, don't think that it makes sense to pay that much for any compact disc, so shop around. If you can find this for $30 or less grab it fast! All in all-A terrific release, but only indispensable for the Beatles completist.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great music never released are you crazy!, April 17, 2009

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rockin randy "rockin randy" (denver, colo, usa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Hard Day's Night / A Hard Day's Night (US) + 7 Bonus Tracks (Audio CD)

What's wrong with these Beatles are they on drugs? 45 years after the release of united artist's A Hard days night this historical release is still not available on CD! What a mess, in the 60's till the 90's you had to pay extra to get the imported version most of us just put up with the US version even though it had several George Martin classical versions of Beatles songs on it. Now in the new century you can get the imported version easy but if you want the US version too bad? It seems that even though the Beatles one of the greatest bands ever, still don't understand business. If you don't release it, you can't sell it! With well over a million Beatles fans who only want everything. There is only one choice, this Russian bootleg. With this set you get the U.S. version and the U.K. version. Kind of a strange CD because you get 4 copies of a hard days night, 3 copies of and I love her Ect. But best of all you get a bonus.
A rundown on the extras included here!
1. Leave me kitten alone - Great audio quality and a great Beatles original probably kept off by the sensors (keep your hands off my pussy way too strong for a 60's record). A total GEM in my opinion.
2. If you got troubles - a good Beatles original
3. That means a lot - An ok Beatles original
4. Christmas time (is here again) - An ok Beatles original released as a B side of OB LA DAY OB LA DA
5. A hard days night - a goofed up studio track
6. Can't buy me love - a goofed up studio track
7. I saw her standing there - a goofed up studio track
I feel bad buying bootlegs but what can I do? The sound quality of these CD's are extremely good for a 60's recording but the manufacturing of the product is very poor, the plastic tends to crack. allot of skipping, about 1 out of 10 CD's that I got from this company skips!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good to have, but beware..., August 20, 2009

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Reader "toronto-reader" (Toronto, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Hard Day's Night / A Hard Day's Night (US) + 7 Bonus Tracks (Audio CD)

I'm happy with this cd because I've always wanted the George Martin instrumentals on cd.

However, I did compare one track (I'll Cry Instead) that I know had different run times on the original UK and US versions of the soundtrack album. On the UK version of the Hard Day's Night album, I'll Cry Instead had a run time of 1:44. On the US version of the album, the run time was 2:06. (This is per the book The Beatles: The Ultimate Recording Guide published by Facts On File).

Now, on this particular CD, the track I'll Cry Instead has the same run time (1:44) on both the UK and US versions of the album.

I haven't checked other tracks but the fact that the run times of I'll Cry Instead is the same for both the UK and US versions on this cd seems to indicate that the US version of the album on this cd was cobbled together by taking tracks from the UK cd version and splicing in the George Martin instrumentals (probably from some vinyl source. I notice that the sound quality of the instrumentals is different--i.e., not as good--as the vocal tracks), rather than taking an actual US vinyl LP and remastering that to cd.

I will note however that the instrumentals appear to be in stereo. (Note that the Facts on File book states that on the US version of the album, the vocals were in mono on both the mono and stereo versions of the LP).